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Trump’s ‘Buy American, Hire American’ Policy Is Dangerous Nonsense
National Review Online ^ | 04/21/2017 | David Harsanyi

Posted on 04/21/2017 12:18:23 PM PDT by Trump20162020

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In the protectionist’s universe, everyone with a Samsung cellphone or a Toyota Camry (both the best-selling brands in their categories) would be a traitor to the American worker.

Where does Mr. Harsanyi think that Camrys are made, and who does he think makes them?

21 posted on 04/21/2017 12:49:12 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: MNJohnnie
Exactly but what you are ACTUALLY seeing is American workers layed off at places like Disney and forced to train their low wage visa workers in how to do their job at a fraction of the cost.

It's true that is happening and it should be ended ASAP, but that is a fairly small part of the total employment picture for tech or STEM jobs. How many STEM workers are being allowed in through general, legal immigration and how many jobs are being outsourced to cheaper labor nations?

How many older, qualified US workers are being let go and what are actually the job prospects for US citizen grads in those fields?

For years, I think our honorable reps. and senators in Congress have been accepting the picture painted by tech employers and that needs to end.

22 posted on 04/21/2017 12:49:14 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Trump20162020

Someone commits a crime and the responose is to deny funding? THROW THEM THE HELL IN TO JAIL!


23 posted on 04/21/2017 12:49:48 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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24 posted on 04/21/2017 12:49:54 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Trump20162020

Dangerous to who? The Chamber of Commerce wing of the GOP?


25 posted on 04/21/2017 12:50:10 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Trump20162020

NRO is dangerous nonsense. Two things worth visiting for. Katherine Timf and the Michael Ramirez cartoon collection. VDH publishes elsewhere, so I don’t even have to visit there to read his wisdom.


26 posted on 04/21/2017 12:51:23 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Trump20162020

“when few things are going your way in politics, though...”

Stopped right there. The author is delusional.

CC


27 posted on 04/21/2017 12:52:19 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Trump20162020

Americans are being held back. There’s no doubt about that at all.


28 posted on 04/21/2017 12:54:16 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Jim 0216

Do these things along with getting the feds back into their constitutional cage and the economy will soon be humming and growing all by itself and like never before.

What a bunch of scumbags the swamp are. They want to see America fail. You see bridges falling apart all over the place, the roads are a mess, lost jobs since 2000 to manufacture overseas(my company did it all, moved to China and since that time has hired ONLY foreigners. Me 5 years to go to retire) ruin our energy systems, bring the muslim brother hood into the WH and into the swamp.

Jeopady answer right there!


29 posted on 04/21/2017 12:56:19 PM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: Uversabound

Oh geeze did not proof.

Jeopardy question right here.

Who is BHO


30 posted on 04/21/2017 12:57:58 PM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: Will88
That's something that is constantly claimed, but I think never actually proved.

In fact, the opposite HAS been proved: there is no "shortage" of STEM-trained Americans, and the vast majority of H-1Bs are NOT "high-skilled." This article is contemptible shilling for the corporate welfare-seekers on the Cheap Labor Express.

31 posted on 04/21/2017 1:01:53 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Trump20162020

Another globalist stooge purchased on the cheap preaching open borders from a rag-magazine.


32 posted on 04/21/2017 1:02:32 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Trump20162020

Then why post it? We know NR hasn’t been conservative for a long time. This is not new or interesting.

Really just quit posting this crap


33 posted on 04/21/2017 1:06:29 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: bigbob

“Harsanyi identifies himself as Jewish[6] and an atheist[7] and believes that gay marriage neither undermines traditional marriage nor triggers societal instability.[8]” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harsanyi


34 posted on 04/21/2017 1:06:49 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Trump20162020

Oh boy, where to begin....

David Harsanyi,

a second generation immigrant Jewish/Atheist, i.e., Fake American,

a "Conservative" from the throughly corrupt National Review,

wants the immigration floodgates to remain open.


This is the intellectual foundation of the modern Conservative movement.

Is there any wonder why "Conservatism" gives most people a bad taste in their mouths, just as much as Liberalism?

35 posted on 04/21/2017 1:07:24 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: NobleFree

First thing I did was to look up the writer's bio. lol

Whenever I see a comically foreign looking name on an article, I look up the writer's bio.

Almost every time, the writer has roots in America only back to around 20 - 50 years.

That test almost never lets me down.

Cuckservatives better wake the F up about their precious "immigrants" and their grand plans to "assimilate" them.

36 posted on 04/21/2017 1:11:33 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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the writer has roots in America only back to around 20 - 50 years.

My roots in America go back 70 years ... am I American enough for you?

37 posted on 04/21/2017 1:13:50 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Trump20162020

According to the DC Cartel, it is morally correct to steal skilled workers from foriegn countries. But demand that US schools and Colleges actually educate people, the horror.


38 posted on 04/21/2017 1:14:15 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: sargon

If we get all the cheap labor express out of the jobs, wages will go up not go down to third world rates. Even legal foreign workers are rarely paid what citizens are paid.


39 posted on 04/21/2017 1:15:14 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Trump20162020

“Truth is, if we were to ever level the playing field with countries like Mexico and China, the average American worker would be making $3 an hour and spending his pittance on Third World health care and decrepit housing. Please, don’t level the playing field.”

That is as far as anyone needs to read to ascertain that the ordure will be up to his eyeballs. Does this fool really, I mean really, think that Trump was calling for $3 wages per hour? Strange, I was just remembering how the liberals would twist and lie and spin during class discussions in college.


40 posted on 04/21/2017 1:16:43 PM PDT by odawg
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